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Suffolk County SUFFOLK COUNTY Vol. 32, No 3 NEWSLETTER ISSN 1079-2198 Representing Nassau & Suffolk Counties Fall 2006 Diker Pavailion for Native Arts and Cultures Opens Celebrate New York State Archaeology Month October 5lh at the Manhattan branch of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. It will be Sunday, October 22 inaugurated by a major exhibit of objects from the collection with interactive media stations. October 21st 1:00 -4:OOPM will be a traditional dance social with the Thunderbird dancers and singers; October 28th will be dance Hoyt Farm Park performances and workshops honoring the Day of the New Hwy., Commack Dead, www.americanindian.si.edu or 211-514-3700. 'Experience archaeology Congressman Timothy Bishop Supports His Region's 'Practice Native technology Culture History Try Native cooking S.C.A.A. Museum Director Dr. Gaynell Stone recently *Watch stone-knapping presented 1s1 District Congressman Tim Bishop with a 'Take an ethnobotany walk copy of S.C.A.A.'s 700 page volume, The History & 'Enjoy the L.I. Native life museum Archaeology of the Montauk. It is of special interest to him 'Create craft objects after being an administrator and educator at Southampton College for many years. He is also supportive of S.C. Archaeological Assn. 631-929-08725 S.C.A.A.'s documentary film, The Sugar Connection: Holland, Barbados, Shelter Island, the story of Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor's role in 17th century global trade - another example of the unique history of Long Island's East End. OCTOBER IS STATE HUMANITIES MONTH Contact www.nyhumanities.org for information. OCTOBER 7™ IS NATIONAL SOLAR TOUR DAY Over 100 L.I. solar houses may be visited 10-4. For sites and information, call 631-537-8282 or contactwww.RenewableEnergyLonglsland.org. Dendrochronology Dating News Matches to the New England- Southern New York dendrochronology database have been obtained by Dan Miles and Michael Worthington of the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory, England, for the Terry- Mulford house, Orient; The Old House in Cutchogue; and the Home Sweet Home and Gardiner Brown houses in East Hampton. Matches have not yet been made for Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island; the Halsey house, Southampton; and the Mulford Farm in East Hampton. The matches were made through sharing data with Dr. Ed Caveat - Dr. Phil Weigand, former Chair of the Stony Cook, senior scientist at the Columbia University Lamont- Brook University Anthropology Department, informs us Doherty Laboratory in New Jersey. The houses not yet that his article, "The Great Frontier on Long Island, NY: dated may be in the future with continued coring of Verrazzano and Early Epidemic Diseases," published in additional structures. The Oxford Lab staff are now this Newsletter, and reprinted in The Long Island Historical writing the reports; the dates and supporting data will in Journal as "How Advanced Were Long Island's Native the Winter 2007 Newsletter. Americans? A Challenge to the Traditional View," was edited so that confusions and inaccuracies occurred. He As is the case with many structures, time forces change says to use the SCAA Newsletter article for the complete whether due to necessity or fashion. The Prosper King story. Dr. Weigand's many years of excavation at a House has undergone modifications overtime. Additions largely unknown site in Jalisco, Western Mexico has such as a glass-enclosed front porch and dormerwindows resulted in two recent publications, "Current Issues updated the home's appearance sometime in the 1930s. Regarding Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Owners in the 1970s were forced to demolish a Southwest Within Northwest Mexico" and "Turquoise: dilapidated summer kitchen and install an enclosed porch Formal Economic Interrelation- ships Between for storage space. Changes in sewers and water systems Mesoamerica and the North American Southwest. impacted the house over time as well as changes in Contact SCAA for source information. heating and cooking needs. Planned restoration activities, which include significant repairs to the foundations, prompted the HBH&PS interest in the site's archaeological potential. Their concern for the house and any damage to intact archaeological deposits helped guide the excavation plan. Several areas adjacent to the house were selected to test for intact historic archaeological deposits and a total of six excavation units were explored. Shovel test pits explored outlying areas further from the structure. On the north and east side of the house significant disturbance was identified. A late 20lh -century utility pipe trench followed the outline of the 1970s rear addition and Archaeological Evaluation of the Prosper King may connect to a similar pipe trench found along the east House Site, Hampton Bays. side of the house. Several other excavations encountered damage and past repair to the foundation of the original Standing on Main Street in Hampton Bays, the Prosper house. It was apparent that the foundation was in need of King House presents many unique opportunities. One of regular maintenance. the most engaging aspects of the house is the group of individuals dedicated to its preservation and restoration. The excavation of the Prosper King House site presented The Hampton Bays Historical & Preservation Society another unique opportunity for archaeology. Sometime (HBH&PS) is the steward of the house. Members and after 1935 and again beginning in the 1970s the house supporters of the society seek to not only to preserve was home to antique shops. Material from these shops Hampton Bays' history but also to engage and educate overlapped with what archaeologists would typically find local youth. The Prosper King House will become home associated with domestic deposits from the 18th and early to the HBH&PS, interpretive exhibits, and a repository 19th centuries. This depositional history presented a library. It is envisioned that the Prosper King House will challenge to archaeologists, which was resolved by stand against quickly disappearing parts of Hampton careful application of strict field methodology. The Bays' history, while providing learning opportunities for adherence to stratigraphic excavation retained residents and visitors alike. depositional context revealing temporal associations that allowed the deposits associated with the antique shops to As part of the effort to restore the house, the HBH&PS be separated from those associated with the historic use invited Hofstra University to evaluate the archaeological of the site. deposits associated with the property. It is of great significance that this investigation was not mandated by Regarding the latter, a thin undisturbed 19th- early 20th federal, state, or local regulations. Rather, it was century deposit was defined at the Prosper King House undertaken by the good will of the HBH&PS. This sort of site. Several units and test pits produced intact historic independent acknowledgment of the value of archaeology deposits and indicate opportunities for future work. It was to interpret historic sites on Long Island should be concluded that the planned restoration activities will do applauded, and hopefully often repeated! The little damage to the archaeological record at the Prosper investigation was undertaken by a team of Hofstra King House site. Moreover, with the information from the students and faculty, directed by Prof. Christopher excavations and planned archaeological monitoring, the Matthews of the Department of Anthropology. foundation repair will likely provide additional opportunities to collect materials that will help to better understand the Prosper King was a prominent member of the history of the Prosper King House thus far. Southampton community. King and his family likely lived in the area by 1832 if not earlier. Upon his death in 1851, A report of Hofstra's archaeological evaluation of the Prosper King left his house to his three sons, arranging for Prosper King House site co-authored by Jennifer Coplin his second wife and her children to continue living there and Christopher Matthews will be deposited with the after his death. The King family retained ownership of the HBH&PS later in 2006 Dr. Christoher Matthews house until 1967 and descendants still live in the region. A New View of the Matinecock: The Leeds Pond understanding, it is not entirely accurate. Since the area of (Nassau) Ceramic Collection (Part 2) Manhasset and Leeds Pond are part of the larger Excerpted from the Stephen Byrne M.S. thesis Township of North Hempstead it is important that town historians regard the Matinecocks, a tribe that sold much The Matinecocks of its land in North Hempstead to white settlers (Overton, Numerous sources of literature suggest that the Native 1966), as not part of the Algonquin nation at all. Research Americans who last inhabited the Greater Leeds Pond suggests that the Matinecocks were in fact part of the surround were likely the Matinecocks (Merriman, 1965), Delaware Tribe of Native Americans and are not sharing a large cultural ancestry with a branch of the Algonquin but are Algonquin speaking. sub-tribe, the Unalachtigo (Weeks, 1965), of the Delaware Native American tribe. Referring to the Matinecocks as Algonquin is deceiving. Algonquin or Algonkian better refers to a language group The Delawares, or in their own manner of speaking, the spoken by many Native Americans including the Lenni Lenape, meaning 'original' or 'pure people' (Brinton, Delawares. All Delaware dialects fall within the language 1969), were referred to as Delawares after
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